"If you had told me 30 years ago today I'd be standing up here giving a Veterans Day speech, I would've had a hard time getting you," a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Army, Jared Ackerman told the Burlington Veterans Day Program audience. "I never really had aspirations to join the army. I remember sitting in Mrs. Newlin's science class the day our country was attacked and the Twin Towers fell."
A BHS freshman, Ackerman said, "I was too immature and too ignorant to understand the significance of this tragedy." It wasn't until his senior year at OSU that he started thinking about serving. "I wo...
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